The Delhi Excessive Court docket Friday sought the Centre’s place on a petition by former BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in search of the court docket’s instructions to the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) on his allegations concerning Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship standing.
Taken up earlier than the bench of Performing Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela, the court docket sought “help” from the federal government’s counsel earlier than passing any order. The federal government’s counsel Apoorv Kurup has now been designated as a senior advocate. The petition has been listed subsequent for January 13.
In November, the HC had expressed its concern that adjudicating Swamy’s plea could result in “two parallel proceedings” over the identical subject, as one other plea by Vignesh Shishir, a BJP employee from Bengaluru, difficult Gandhi’s alleged twin citizenship and in search of a CBI probe into the matter, is pending earlier than the Allahabad HC.
The Allahabad HC is because of hear the plea on December 19 the place it has directed the MHA to apprise the court docket of the standing of Shishir’s illustration made to the MHA.
